What We Do

We draw on our well-established network, expansive domain knowledge, and creative business thinking to help organizations achieve financial sustainability and expand their impact.

Earned Revenue Development

Based on decades of experience working with a diverse array of news and media organizations, KLJD helps our clients to diversify, support, and expand their revenue portfolio to increase top-line potential and reduce long-term risk.

Foundation & Philanthropic Development

KLJD offers a proven methodology and suite of services to help our clients secure strategic philanthropic support and grant funding that will allow them to maintain their mission while developing sustainable business practices.

Community Engagement & Monetization

We help businesses to streamline and focus on their target audiences. By putting the audience at the center of the business model, we help our clients to listen and understand the information needs of target communities who will, in return, derive value and pay for the media organization’s products and services.

Shadow Executive Services

We offer strategic guidance and coaching to executives and business managers to help build operational excellence and sustainability. We draw on many years of organizational leadership and management experience to help clients navigate inevitable challenges and achieve their business goals.

Business Ideation & Innovation

We help our clients move grow and move their businesses forward by developing new and innovative practices and market-driven services that have the potential to generate significant long-term revenue.

Co-Pilot Propreitary Funder Database

Containing up-to-date information to varying degrees on more than 500 funders Co-Pilot is a CRM/Web-based service that a license is provided for at no additional charge to all KLJD Clients focused on philanthropic fundraising.

The Team

Kevin L J Davis

Kevin Davis is a world-renowned business and management consultant, specializing in revenue development for nonprofit and for-profit media, data and civics organizations.
Prior to founding KLJD Consulting, Davis was the first and only CEO and Executive Director of the Investigative News Network (INN), based in Los Angeles.

Remy Schwartz

Consultant Remy Schwartz is a project management and media operations expert based in Brooklyn, NY. He previously served as the Business Operations Manager at Hearken, a consulting and tech company that works with media organizations to improve their audience engagement strategies. At Hearken he managed organizational partnerships and developed systems for account management, internal communication, financial tracking and revenue forecasting. Remy has also worked in documentary film and multimedia production and his work has been featured in New York Magazine, Chicago Public Radio, and The Huffington Post.

Posts

This was originally posted on Medium. It is a widely-held belief that journalists, particularly investigative journalists, are a breed apart. Long suffering, idealistic and over-worked, today’s journalists are not only expected to be expert in everything they write, but also be adept at producing content for multiple platforms and be social-media whizzes to boot. Today’s Read more about Why I’m on Team Hearken[…]

This article was originally posted on Blue Avocado. Accusations of fake news are all over the news. So when donors want old-fashioned, honest information, they are turning to nonprofit news organizations they trust. We asked consultant Kevin Davis, who works with many of these nonprofit journalism organizations, to explain how they are working to gain Read more about How To Be a Community-Powered Nonprofit[…]

By Kevin Davis. This article appeared originally on NetNewsCheck, February 4, 2016 6:35 AM EST KLJD Consulting’s Kevin Davis writes that news organizations that turn to philanthropic avenues to fund their journalism are going to have a tough time walking the tightrope between editorial independence and covering the topics that the big donors will want them Read more about Crowdfunding Journalism By The 1 %[…]

By Kevin Davis. This article appeared originally on NetNewsCheck, October 29th, 2015 6:28 AM EDT Kevin Davis argues that if the vastly diverse independent media across the nation can work together, upstart outlets would see their shared purpose. Then they might also share some of the innovative revenue strategies that break from the conventional advertising Read more about Independent Media Have Plenty Of Common Cause[…]

On May 14th through 16th of 2015, I had the honor of participating in a conference that while aimed in the same direction as many others, brought together a group of unique, talented and diverse individuals with whom I felt honored to be among. As Ivan Roman of the Journalism That Matters convening organization writes on their site: “Organized Read more about Report Published Charting Future of Indy Media[…]

By Kevin Davis. This article appeared originally on NetNewsCheck, September 10, 2015 6:18 AM EDT “Kevin Davis has seen the background struggles tearing at nonprofit newsrooms across the country as they weigh journalistic idealism against revenue needs. He argues that nonprofits must remember that they are businesses, too, and pursue fiscal sustainability as they develop their Read more about Nonprofits Need Pragmatism For A Future[…]